Beyond the state : the Colonial Medical Service in British Africa

Beyond the state the Colonial Medical Service in British Africa

The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practic...

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Otros Autores: Greenwood, Anna, 1971- Author (author), Doyle, Shane, contributor (contributor), Greenwood, Anna, contributor, Heaton, Matthew M., contributor, Hokkanen, Markku, contributor, Jennings, Michael, contributor, Pringle, Yolana, contributor, Topiwala, Harshad, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2016, 2015.
Edición:MSI edition
Colección:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Materias:
Grossbritannien. > Colonial Medical Service.
Commonwealth.
Great Britain. > Colonial Medical Service.
Medical care > Africa > History.
Colonialism & Imperialism.
History Of Medicine.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
MEDICAL / History.
Afrika.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427393506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: looking beyond the state / Anna Greenwood
  • 2. Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897-1940 / Yolana Pringle
  • 3. The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891-1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts / Markku Hokkanen
  • 4. The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala
  • 5. The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918-47 / Anna Greenwood
  • 6. Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa / Matthew M. Heaton
  • 7. Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda / Shane Doyle
  • 8. Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika / Michael Jennings
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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